Category «Jewish ghettos under Nazi»

Win the world’s biggest jackpot ‘ Tadeusz Pankiewicz ‘ (November 21, 1908 in Sambor – November 5, 1993, Krakow ), was a Polish Catholic pharmacist and one operating in the Krakow ghetto during the occupation of Poland (1939-1945). He was recognized as “righteous among the Nations” by Yad Vashem on February 10, 1983, for rescuing …

Jürgen Stroop ( Detmold , 26 of September of 1895 – Warsaw , 6 of March of 1952 ) was a general of the SS . Born in the name of Josef , he changed it to Jürgen in May 1941 , a month before the war broke out on the Eastern Front , by …

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (in German : Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto , Polish : Powstanie w getcie warszawskim ; Yiddish : אויפֿשטאַנד אין וואַרשעווער געטאָ) was the revolt of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto when German troops began the second mass deportation to Concentration camps andextermination during World War II . It occurred between …

Jan Karski (June 24, 1914 – July 13 , 2000) was a member of the Resistance Poland in World War II and later academic at the University of Georgetown . In 1942 and 1943 , Karski reported to the Polish government in exile and the Western Allies about the situation during the Occupation of Poland …

The Warsaw Ghetto ( Getto Warszawskie in Polish ; Warschauer Ghetto in German ) was the largest ghetto Jew established in Europe by Nazi Germanyduring the Holocaust , in the context of World War II . It was implanted in the center of the Polish capital between October and November of 1940. In the ghetto …

Gueto 1 is a film documentary directed in 2009 by Yael Hersonski , around the performance of Das Ghetto , an unfinished film blurb Nazi about the Warsaw ghetto shot in 1942, two months before the mass deportation of the ghetto inhabitants To the field of Treblinka . The documentary includes interviews with former residents …

Josef Blösche ( December to February of 1912 – 29 of July of 1969 ) was a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party ( Nazi Party ) in Germany during World War II , and lent his service in Warsaw as Rottenführer (Corporal) Of the SS . He came to be known in …

The ghetto of Lodz (in German , Litzmannstadt ) was established by the Nazis in Poland occupied, between 19 and 25 January 1940. [ citation needed ] It was created by Hans Frank , Governor General German for Poland. It was the second ghetto largest after that of Warsaw . It was created to bring …

The Jewish Ghetto Police (in German Jüdische Gheto- Polizei or Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst ), also known as the Service Order Jewish and Jews call the Jewish police , were units of Police organized in ghettos by local councils ( Judenrat ) Under orders of the soldiers of the Nazi Germany . The services of the so-called …

The Riga ghetto covered a small area in Maskavas Forštate, a quarter of Riga , the capital of Latvia , designated by the Nazis to concentrate the Jewsof Latvia, and subsequently to other deportees from Germany , during World War II . On October 25, 1941 , the Nazis moved all Jews from and around …

Trochinbrod was a Jewish city situated in what is now considered the western part of Ukraine , although it was once part of Poland , 30 kilometers northwest of Lutsk . She was also known as Sofievka or Zofiowka , in Polish, on behalf of Sofia, a Russian princess who ceded her lands to the …

The Ghetto of Vilna , Ghetto Wilno or Ghetto Vilnius was the ghetto Jew established by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust in World War II , in Vilna , a city that, before the occupation, belonged to Poland , and is now Located in Lithuania . It was in operation from 1941 to 1943 . …

Judenrat (pl. Judenräte ) is the name given in German , councils Jewish government of the ghettos established by the Nazis in various places, especially in the territory of the General Government of Poland , the part of Poland occupied but not annexed By Germany . They had different names according to the Judenrat concrete …

The ghetto of L’viv (Lwow or Lviv) was one of the largest ghettos established by the Nazis in L’viv , Galicia ( Poland , today Ukraine ) between the 8 of November of 1941 and the 1 of June of 1943 . In the district 120,000 Jews perished, surviving 823. History By 1939, the city …

The Ghetto Kovno or Kaunas ( Konzentrationslager Kauen (KZ) in German and Kauno Getas in Lithuanian ) was a ghetto built in Kaunas in January , Lithuanian SSR during the Nazi occupation in the Soviet Union . As in other states occupied by the authorities of the Third Reich , this ghetto is part of …

The Częstochowa Ghetto was a ghetto established by the Nazis in Poland occupied during World War II , to rally population Jewish . Located in the city of Częstochowa , 64 km north of Katowice , it occupied the eastern part of the city center, which coincided in part with the city’s ancient Jewish quarter. …

The ghetto Jew from Krakow was one of the five major ghettos created by the Nazis in the General Government , during its occupation of Poland in World War II . It separated people capable of working from those considered worthy of execution. Before the war, Krakow had been an influential cultural center for the …

History On May 3, 1944, the ghettoization of Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvar) began, which was completed in one week. That was less than two months after the Nazis launched Operation Margarette on March 19 , by which the Wehrmacht put Hungary under puppet rule . The Jews were concentrated in the Iris brick factory in the northern …

The ghetto Chortkiv was a ghetto established by the Nazis in Ukraine in 1942, after the German invasion during World War II , to concentrate the population Jewish . History The Jewish community of Chortkiv dates back at least to the 17th century , being the oldest record of Hebrew presence in the citadel of …

The będzin ghetto (in German Bendzin ) was a ghetto established by the Nazis in Poland occupied during World War II , to rally population Jewish . Located in the city of Będzin in 1942 , it was the largest ghetto in Upper Silesia , to the south west of the country. The more than …

The ghetto of Brest , was a ghetto established by the Nazis in Soviet Belarus shortly after the German invasion of 1941, during World War II , to concentrate the population Jewish . History Brest is a Belarusian city located near the present border with Poland . The city comprised until 1921 of Russia , …

The Germans established the Bialystok ghetto in 1941 as a concentration camp population Jewish resident of the city Polish namesake , within the framework of the Second World War . It was disbanded in 1943 after the murder or deportation of prisoners by the forces German occupation. Historical antecedents View of the center of Białystok …

The Germans established a ghetto Baranovichi in 1941 as a concentration camp population Jewish survivor of the slaughter of Baranovichi , during World War II . History In the autumn of 1941 , when the Germans launched the invasion of the Soviet Union , they arrived in the Polish-Belorussian city of Baranovichi ( Polish : …

The ghetto Andrychów (in German Andrichau ) was a ghetto established by the Nazis in Poland occupied during World War II , to rally population Jewish . Located in the city of Andrychów . History The ghetto was established in 1942 and was located in the poorest part of the city. It included Szewska, Brzegi …

List of ghetto Jews created by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945 , in the framework of the Second World War . The ghettos were created by Nazi Germany and its allies for the purpose of isolating and controlling the Jewish population in the territories they controlled. The vast majority of them were located in …